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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Turkey Failed Coup Bombshell: Coup is yet more evidence of covert high level US "civil war"

Alleged Coup Plotter, "Retired" US Army

General John F. Campbell

Egads!!!! "The United States Army, one of the architects of the recent Turkey coup plot, would have built a new military base at the zero point of the Turkey-Syria border, if coup plotters were successful in overtaking the power of the military, intelligence, police security, legislative and judiciary institutions in Turkey."
This morning, more information emerged in the alternate media (but not, of course, in the Main$tream Media) concerning the background and ramifications of the failed Turkish Coup,

But prior to getting to the blockbuster F. William Engdahl analysis, first of all, there is this very interesting background report from Yesisafak on what happened the night of the failed coup. Some longtime CIA operatives were based just offshore from Turkey in the Sea of Marmara....waiting for the coup to take place. They planned to then swoop into the country and take it over....just as they had so many times before in countries all over the world. Had they been successful, Turkey would have become just another Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc., etc., etc. The coup plotters had even promised to build a US military base on the border between Turkey and Syria. Talk about a recipe for perpetual conflict!

But, as Robbie Burns said so many years ago...."The best-laid plans of mice and men...gang aft aglee".

The enormity of the ramifications of the failed Turkish coup are just beginning to sink in at the US high level war-mongering/hegemonic thimpk tanks. The usual perps are going through all the stages of grief...chiefly anger (shifting responsibility) denial (lying) and bargaining (trying to win back Erdogan's trust). I'm copying Engdahl's post in it's entirety and will have my thoughts and comments to follow:

While the Obama Administration and the CIA officially cling to the fig leaf lie that US intelligence was innocent of any involvement in the failed July 15 coup d’ etat attempt by the CIA-run Fethullah Gülen organization in Turkey, the truth is coming out from senior US intelligence insiders themselves. It reflects a huge internal faction struggle within US leading circles in what by all accounts is shaping to be the most bizarre Presidential election year in American history.

The first admission that US intelligence had their hand in the anti-Erdogan coup, a coup launched just days after Erdogan announced a major strategic shift away from NATO and towards Russia, came from Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski is one of the most senior members of the US intelligence establishment, a former Obama Presidential adviser and former National Security Council architect of the Jimmy Carter 1979 Mujahideen Afghanistan terror operations against the Soviet forces in that country.

In a Twitter tweet from his own blog, Brzezinski wrote a precis of a new article he wrote for The American Interest magazine. He writes, “The US backing of the attempted coup against the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a grave mistake that could deliver a major blow to the US reputation.” That’s definitely putting it mildly given what’s unfolding in Turkey since July 15.
Brzezinski went on to write, “Turkey was on the verge of reconsidering its foreign policy after failure in the Syria during the last five years, and the US miscalculation in supporting the coup and hosting its leader (Fethullah Gülen, now in CIA-arranged exile in Pennsylvania-w.e.) was so serious that it is no longer possible to put the blame on once-US-ally Turkey if it turns its back on US and rethink (sic) its policies.” He continues, “A potential Russia-Turkey-Iran coalition would create an opportunity to solve the Syrian crisis. If Erdogan had the smallest bit of wisdom, he should have come to the understanding that he could not make an independent credibility with the help of some ‘decayed’ Arab countries,” no doubt referring to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the prime financiers of the Syrian terror war against Assad since 2011.

Brzezinski, who together with Henry Kissinger was one of the foremost US foreign policy strategists of the postwar period, the founding Executive Director of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission, and one who still today presumably retains Top Secret clearance access to US intelligence reports, was expressing his fury at the utter incompetence of US intelligence in managing the Turkey relationship. Notably, the person in the US State Department directly responsible for not only the disastrous US coup in February, 2014 in Ukraine, but also for Turkey, is the hapless neo-con perpetual warrior-ess, Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland, wife of neo-con Robert Kagan.
Brzezinski’s candid critique was followed up by an even more detailed expose of US intelligence ties to Fethullah Gülen, charged by the Turkish government with treason and backing the July 15 coup. In a guest article in the EU online mgazine EurActiv.com dated 17 August, 2016, Arthur H. Hughes confirms the intimate links between Gülen and the CIA, noting that “Gülen fled to the US with the assistance of the diplomat Morton Abramovitz, CIA agents Graham Fuller and George Fidas, and the above-mentioned Fr. Alexander Karloutsos.”

Gülen CIA friend Bartholomew I

Hughes’ article is a bombshell in many respects, and most definitely in his detailing of the intimate ties between the CIA, Gülen and the current Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, current Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. Hughes described the above-mentioned Father Alexander Karloutsos:

“…one of the members of the American-Israeli lobby in the Constantinople Patriarchate is Father Alexander Karloutsos, Public Affairs Officer close to Archbishop Demetrios (of America-w.e.). Thanks to his ties with high-level officials and Greek-American billionaires, he is basically the only person who controls the money flows from the US to the Phanar (the Greek Orthodox part of Istanbul-w.e.), and that gives him wide possibilities of exerting pressure upon the Ecumenical Patriarchate. On the other hand, Karloutsos is also in good relations with former CIA Director George Tenet, and with the preacher Fethullah Gülen cooperating with the American intelligence.”

George Tenet, a close ally of the Clinton political machine is a Greek-American former head of CIA during the time of Bill Clinton and also George W. Bush. The Clintons are both on record praising Fethullah Gülen. It seems to be a cozy network of CIA-Gülen-Constantinople Patriarchate-Clintons, all financed with “money from Greek-American billionaires.”

Arthur H. Hughes is not a casual commentator on events in Turkey and the Middle East. He was US Ambassador to Yemen in the 1990’s during the Clinton Presidency, then Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia, and was Deputy Chief of Mission in Tel Aviv. His linking of Gülen to the CIA and to the Constantinople Patriarchate points to one of the least-public and most influential covert CIA-run networks in the world, the anti-Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate of Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. Hughes suggests that if Erdogan and the Turkish government are serious about dealing with future coup threats, they should put the Constintanople Patriarchate under the magnifying glass.

As I’ve documented in my book, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy, Graham E. Fuller and George Fidas, both decades-long senior CIA officials managed to secure an extraordinary permanent residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, over the loud formal objections of the US State Department, in 1999, when Gülen was about to be charged by the Turkish authorities for inciting treason.

Most recently, Fuller felt compelled to write on his blog that, indeed he did help Gülen obtain a US green card, but that no, Gülen was not behind the failed July 15 coup. However Turkish reports place Fuller and another senior CIA ally, Henri J. Barkey, at a luxury hotel on one of the Princes’ Islands in the Sea of Marmara, some twenty minutes from Istanbul the night of the failed coup. In a subsequent appearance at a Washington think tank forum held by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a neo-con address whose chairman is former CIA director, neo-con James Woolsey III, Barkey and his host tried to make a feeble joke about his presence in Istanbul the night of the coup and his ties to Gülen.

For once, Brzezinski is right.

The CIA-Gülen coup d’etat attempt to topple Erdogan after his turn towards rapprochement with Moscow was “a grave mistake.” The consequences, aside from a massive crackkdown on Gülen networks and media inside Turkey, include an open dialogue of Erdogan and the Turkish government of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım with Russia and now with Iran, about a “solution” to the Syrian war that would include Bashar al-Assad as at least a transition figure.

The Erdogan pivot East since the failed CIA coup has forced the Pentagon to quietly remove its nuclear warheads from Turkey’s Incirlik airbase near the Syrian border to Romania. At the same time, Turkey’s Prime Minister on August 20 stated to the media that Russia could possibly use Turkey’s Incirlik Airbase if necessary, something that certainly produced more acute gas pains in Langley, Foggy Bottom (the more than fitting name for the US State Department headquarters), and the Obama White House.

July 15 may go down in history as one of the most decisive defeats of American global power projection, of the so-called New World Order of David Rockefeller and friends. If so, not a minute too soon for the prospect of a more peaceful world.

So much is revealed in this analysis...some comments quite perceptive and authentic...others...not so much. I will comment on them in point form in the order they appear in the analysis:

- Just as I've been alleging for months Brzezinski confirms...there is a covert "civil war" going on between at least two factions controlling the letter agencies at the highest level of the American government. This is evidenced in the staunch denial by the Obama Regime of US complicity in the failed coup, versus the admission by Brzezinski who is a Carter-era foreign policy strategist and the author of "The Grand Chessboard" doctrine of US interference/takeover of foreign states. Brzezinski's calling the Obama regime "liars" (Biden insisted the US had "nothing to do with the failed coup" just last week) is shocking in and of itself.

- Note that Brzezinski does not rue the immorality/anti-democratic nature of the plot to assassinate the democratically elected Erdogan...just that the plot was conducted in a ham-handed fashion. Had it been successful, he no doubt would have joined in the applause. His concern about the US's "reputation" belies a disconcerting naiveté....the US's reputation in terms of honourable respect for other nations went out the window decades ago....think Chile. However, on second thought...Brzezinski probably means the U.S.'s well earned "reputation" for ruthless and successful take-overs of other countries...think Brazil, just today.

- lol...Brzezinski expresses concern that the US will not be able to "blame" Turkey for turning its back on the US. This reminds me of what Putin said a few years ago: Post WWII US regimes cannot learn from any of their mistakes in, say, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc., precisely because they cannot accept responsibility for them. It is always "someone else's" fault. Brzezinski regrets that the US won't be able to "blame" Turkey and, possibly, as it has in so many other cases...make Turkey "pay" for the perceived transgression.

- Contrary to what Engdahl says about the nukes at Incirlik, I very much doubt they could have been moved to "Romania". First of all, Romania vehemently denied the allegation--and who could blame them for refusing the "tainted bait" being placed on their soil. Secondly, with 7,000 Turkish soldiers still standing guard outside Incirlik...I don't think the US could "quietly" remove them. Lastly, lol...I don't even think the lights are back on at Incirlik...not having had objective confirmation of same.

- My final point also disagrees with Engdalh's conclusion that, as a result of the "decisive defeat" of the July 15, 2016 coup, the hegemonic madmen neocon perps are out for the count. Due to the "covert civil war" going on at the highest levels of the US government, the US is incapable of reacting in a decisive manner to the errors exposed by the failed coup. There is no "cleansing mechanism" in the US bureaucracy. The warring factions within the letter agencies of the US government are still able to operate under the radar and without bearing responsibility for and learning from their failures. Entities such as the psychopaths under discussion...when pushed into the corner, as these perps have been by the failed coup...are likely to lash out in dangerously risky and unpredictable ways...as they have shown themselves capable of in the past. In other words they might double down and try for one last "roll of the dice" re the "geostrategically indispensable" Turkey.

7 comments:

Brzezinski is one of what I call 'the feudalists' who are raging against 'the nihilists' (the neocohns and their banker masters). As you point out, Greencrow, he is against their incompetence not their goals.

But I wonder if he has misread their goals and that the destruction is part and parcel of their nihilism?

You are, I believe, referring to the "Samson Option" of the nihilist Ziofascists? This, IMO, has always been their fall back position. I plan to do a post some day on why the neocons, in all their incarnations over the centuries, need to be "victims" and "banished" in order to rise like a Phoenix from the deserts they themselves create. It is a kind of metamorphosis...like the moths and butterflies....it's what they have to do as a species. But, that's another post entirely.

Yes, the Samson/Phoenix theory regarding the life cycle of Ziofascist culture in human history is fascinating...but I probably have encapsulated it as well as I can in my paragraph above. So it would be a very short post, lol. But I would put a photo at the top...showing the stages of metamorphosis of the moth....as an illustration. lol [black humour]

regarding the coup- though there was imo more then sufficient evidence that the US was involved in the coup- there are always little doubts, because were not privy to the inner workings of any given situation..

As time has gone on with the benefit of hindsight.. one can see more and more that the coup was us/israel instigated

the promise made to turkey for the kurds to withdraw from manbij, was a promise given with no intent to keep- because the plan was to overthrow the government of Turkey..and it failed

had the coup succeeded there would be no fight over the territory the kurd/israelis want to annex in Turkey- leaving just the problem of iranbut the coup failed

that deal with Israel was made, imo, with an eye to a military coup/NATO leadership in place- let's see what happens now..

the biggest red flag in the turkish coup situation was the fact that the media, as well as much of the so called 'alternative media' immediately began spinning on a conspiracy theory regarding it being an inside job- WHAT!

the msm openly promoting a conspiracy theory- i mean openly! nearly undheard of except......! the only time they (media) spin in this way is for disinfo purposes:

Putin's hackers and that type of silliness..Or that one about Putin leaking the Panama Papers?

The media will openly engage in absurd, convoluted theories if they can smear someone or some nation in the process... and of course wage war,, but they don't call those 'conspiracy theories' they call that journalism!

So the fact that they (media) engaged immediately in a conspiracy theory regarding the turkey coup was a big red flag to me!

Thanks for your comments....valuable additional considerations! Yes, the Engdahl article was quickly swept under the Google rug. I planned on posting about it when I first saw it yesterday morning. Then, in the evening when I went to look for it on the Internet...I had one heck of a time finding it! Truth hurts, apparently.

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